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America proudly displayed its newest technological wonders at the Centennial exposition in

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Philadelphia

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The term Gilded Age refers specifically to a time when

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shallow worship of wealth and sharp social divisions existed

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As the size of the industrial workforce grew in the late 19th century

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the number of firms in the various industries shrank

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Between 1870 and 1900, the percentage of people working in ______ shrank

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agriculture

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After 1870

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American inventiveness and technological progress flourished

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Edison organized the building of the first electrical power plant in

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New York City

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The major significance of Elihu Thomson's career was his

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successful and prosperous General Electric Company

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An effect of the rise of corporations in America was

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a decrease in the amount of long term planning by leaders of companies

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before the industrial boom of the late 1800s

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labor was done by artisans who controlled the pace and output of their labor

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An example of vertical integration was

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Gustavus Swift's control of all aspects of meat-packing

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an industrial owner who practiced horizontal integration

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bought out competitors in the same inddustry

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The pioneer of horizontal integration was

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John D. Rockefeller

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Automated cigarette manufacturing was pioneered by

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James B Duke

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One disadvantage for American workers of the rise of corporations was

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corporations now controlled the conditions and nature of work

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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle focused on the problems of

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meatpacking plants

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The workplace of the late 1800s included all of the following conditions except

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a safe and healthy environment

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One effect of workers being required to work long hours was

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a disruption of workers' family lives

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The use of sweatshops was most common in

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the garment industry

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By 1900, legislative acts that regulated the horrors of child labor were

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not effectively enforced by authorities

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Which statement about women and children in the work force is not true?

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Conditions were hard for women and children, but they received the same pay as men.

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Eugene V. Debs

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As leader of the American Railway Union, he led the strike at the George Pullman Sleeping Car Company

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Clay Frick

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He managed Andrew Carnegie's steel plant during the contentious Homestead strike

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Terrence Powderly

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He emerged as the leader of the Knights of Labor, the nation's fist large, national union

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Samuel Gompers

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He led the American Federation of labor as it became the largest organizer of workers in the United States

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Jane Addams

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The person created the influential settlement house, Hull House of Chicago, and was a reformer dedicated to numerous causes that aimed to improve the lives of the working class

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Daniel Hale Williams

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This physician started Provident Hospital, the nation's first interracial hospital

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Amadeo Pierto Giannini

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This banker from San Francisco eventually led the bank of America, among today's largest financial institutions

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Regarding the increase of female workers, most Americans believed that

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a woman's proper role was still caring for home and family

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the purpose of the settlement house movement was to

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help the working poor by providing education and social services, and community reconstruction

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Which statement would most likely have been said by a believer in Social Darwinism

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"The laws of nature dictate the conditions of life for both the rich and the poor"

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The Great Uprising of 1877 was a general strike against the nation's

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railway companies

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a major difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor was

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membership in the Knights of Labor was open to all workers

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Seven policemen and four workers were killed by a bomb at Haymarket Square in

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Chicago

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The year 1886 saw the Knights of Labor unify behind the move for

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an 8 hour work day

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The American Federation of Labor emphasized the tactic of

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collective bargaining

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A turning point in the Pullman strike occurred when

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Eugene Debs withdrew his support for the strike

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According to the text, about how many strikes were called around the end of the 19th century

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22,000

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A huge group of Jewish immigrants escaped from the pogroms in

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Russia

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Of the following regions, the smallest number of migrants came from ______ between 1820 and 1914

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eastern europe

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Francesco's Barone's success in America led to

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the chain migration of many Sicilians to his new town

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In urban, working-class neighborhoods of the early 20th century

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ethnic groups lived in mixed or neighboring sections of town

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Jacob A Riis' How the Other Half Lives focused on

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the new opportunities for the growing middle class

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Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist

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"The nation's purity is being ruined by Catholics and undesirable foreigners"

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Scientific racism espoused all of the following beliefs exceppt

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"new immigrants" were inferior, thus they must be helped by native Americans

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The American Protective Association focuses specifically on

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limiting the civil rights of Catholics Americans

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Of the following groups that migrated to the US in the late 19th century, which were motivated most by fear of violence

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Russian Jews

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Which of the following conditions in Italy was least important for Italians deciding to migrate in the late 19th century

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too high mortality rate

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in the latter part of the 19th century countries that attracted migrants usually

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had growing industrial economies

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the term "Great Migration" refers to the

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mass movement of American blacks from the rural south the the urban North

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Stereotypes of blacks were reinforced

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by portrayals of blacks in vaudeville and film

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Immigration and migration patterns from 1880-1910 resulted in

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the impressive growth of many cities

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IN 1900 the largest city in the West was

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San Francisco

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In 1900 the largest city in the United States was

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New York

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Residential suburbs were first populated by

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members of the middle class

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"Downtown" districts tended to include

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retail shops and financial institutions

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The book American Woman's Home emphasized all of the following points except

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fathers taking a less active role in the raising of their children

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Of the following the last to enter the "middle class" in America was the

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factory supervisor

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All of the following are true about the new middle class except

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advertisers geared their messages toward memebers of the professional class

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Joseph Pulitzer and Randolph Hearst capitalized on the middle-class's taste for

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getting news in an easy-to-read format

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Coney Island in New York served as an optimal example of Americans' love for

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amusement parks and technological wonders

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Which spectatrr sport was largely favored by middle class at the turn of the century

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professional baseball

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